As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation is focused on the myriad of factors which make our city unique and successful. With an emphasis on strengthening this region's competitiveness in the global economy, the Foundation works with many partners to publish cutting edge research, hold public forums, and convene task forces of experts and stakeholders to create action agendas for real change.
The Boston Foundation is pleased to support long-term equity and justice efforts among its 19 new discretionary grantees, as well as sharing a new round of grants from the Free for All Fund and a number of other programs.
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The three co-chairs will oversee the effort to raise $3.3 million to support the Boston Foundation's research, convenings and general operations on behalf of Massachusetts nonprofits and philanthropy.
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A new report from Boston Indicators and the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program highlights the potential impact of "upzoning" to allow more housing units near Greater Boston transit stations as a means to improving housing availability and affordability.
Read moreA new, in-depth report of Live Arts Boston (LAB) titled "Live Arts Boston: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Equity in the Performing Arts" demonstrates that the program has had a strong positive impact on the arts ecosystem in Greater Boston, the Boston Foundation announced today. The program, launched in 2017 as a partnership of the Boston Foundation and the Barr Foundation, was assessed by Barbara Schaffer Bacon and Pam Korza, co-directors of Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts.
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Area residents have an opportunity to learn more about how to pursue careers in social justice through a virtual forum at Endicott College in Beverly on Monday, Oct. 26: Barbara Jones, an attorney and an adjunct professor at Endicott who specializes in juvenile and mental health law, will moderate the panel discussion. Other panelists are Eddy Chrispin, a Boston Police sergeant and former social worker; Imari K. Paris Jeffries, executive director of KingBoston, and Monica Cannon Grant, CEO and founder of Violence in Boston.
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Here, some of Boston's favorite hip-hop artists - Oompa, Brandie Blaze, Cliff Notez, Red Shaydez, Billy Dean Thomas and more - describe the city's unique hip-hop ecosystem, the need to create space for the genre in Boston's music and arts scenes, navigating being a hip-hop artist during the pandemic and more. TBF is proud to have supported many of the artists quoted in this piece via Live Arts Boston.
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A new report by Boston Indicators & Brookings Institute titled "Zoned Out: Why Massachusetts Needs to Legalize Apartments Near Transit" analyzes Greater Boston's housing crisis and the policy choices behind it; they propose legalizing moderate-density housing near transit stations as a solution.
Read moreIn this joint op-ed, Imari Paris Jeffires, Segun Idowu & Rahsaan Hall call on Massachusetts leaders to "make a bold statement about the true meaning of equal protection under the law" by passing the Policing Reform Bill and including in it four key measures.
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In the newest report from the Boston Indicators team, we partner with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program to explore how a statewide zoning change might unlock the opportunity to create thousands of new homes near transit hubs in Massachusetts.
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A review of the three-year impact of the Live Arts Boston program demonstrates the power of making grants to individual artists to produce and perform new works.
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The third installment of the Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2020 series looks at the looming challenges facing housing equity and stability even after the COVID-19 pandemic, and floats some policy ideas for protecting renters, landlords and homeowners
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Boston Indicators teams up with the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and the Economic Security Project to explore how an expansion of the state Earned Income Tax Credit could provide a guaranteed income stream, and improved financial security, to over 1.7 million Massachusetts residents in families earning less than $70,000 per year.
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A powerful conversation on the ways we devalue Black lives, and important work on housing and equity took center stage during a busy time for the Foundation.
